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Three survivors from the Suribachi event--John (Doc) Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)--are brought home to receive a nation's thanks and to charm the citizens into buying more war bonds. In a packed arena the three re-enact the raising on an imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: On Duty, Honor and Celebrity | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is an adaptation of James Bradley and Ron Powers's book, recounting the story of the three survivors of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. The event produced the most famous photographic image of the war, and the men were returned home to lead a war-bond tour during which they were heroically lionized. None felt they had done anything exceptional, and Eastwood's film (one of two he has made about Iwo Jima, the other from the Japanese point of view) becomes a meditation on what does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint Eastwood on Heroism | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...anniversary in San Francisco and there was a panel of vets. All of them, to a man, said that they'd only come out in the last couple of years, and this was a 60th anniversary. One guy I talked to was Danny Thomas, who was a corpsman like Bradley, the same decorations and everything - he said it took him 55 years before he could talk about it, even in passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint Eastwood on Heroism | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip the whole delivering-in-a-stable bit, that's fine with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 16, 2006 | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

BLOGGING ABOUT HIGHER education is all the rage these days, with US News' Paper Trail, Richard Bradley's Shots in the Dark and the Chronicle of Higher Education's News Blog, to name just a few. This summer saw the addition of two Ivy-focused blogs: IvyGate and IvyLeak. Today they get profiled in the Brown Daily Herald and the New York Sun (question for the latter: why?), and the mud flies. Here's a quick summary of both pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Infusion: The Dartmouth Moves the Ball Forward | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

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